From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 18 11:32:45 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA13204 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 11:32:45 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA13198 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 11:32:44 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA27737; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 14:32:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 14:32:25 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9501181932.AA27737@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NETBEUI for FreeBSD? Any docs? In-Reply-To: <9501181502.AA26345@schizo.coe.montana.edu> References: <9501181339.AA25496@schizo.coe.montana.edu> <9501181425.AA13556@blaise.ibp.fr> <9501181502.AA26345@schizo.coe.montana.edu> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < Samba won't solve the problem. Samba is NETBIOS over TCP/IP. I'm talking > a whole different protocol, NETBEUI, 'ala WFW/LanManager in it's simplest > form. LanMan uses a number of different protocols all carrying the same data. It shouldn't be too hard to design a simple socket interface that provides the appropriate services. (Take a look at the output of `tcpdump ether multicast and not arp' on a LAN with an NT machine sometime and you'll see what I mean.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant